Intro to Scythian Suite (Live)

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome Welcome, welcome, welcome Welcome, welcome, welcome To the second act of the second show I would like to... But a very very warm welcome to all the Metallica Club members Who have descended upon San Francisco from all over the world Coming here to share in this incredible and unique experience Thank you Metallica Club members for coming You can applaud yourself! There you go! How many countries do we count here? Let's see, I see our Polish friends over here Our German friends Our Mexican friends Our Swedish friends Costa Rica, Turkey Denmark, you are beautiful You are beautiful and thank you Brazil in the house right there That's right Yeah, I got pretty good grades in Geography back in the day France, Israel Is that Panama? Ish? No And I also wanna thank everybody in San Fransisco For welcoming the Metallica fans And making them all feel at home See if you can keep that applause going as long as you did for "Memory" I'll be back in 5 minutes I also wanna thank Edwin Outwater, the resident conductor Of the San Francisco Symphony for doing an incredible job Through the first half Please give it up, Edwin And now it's my great great honor To ask you to join me in welcoming the musical director of the San Francisco Symphony 25 years running A dear friend of mine, a dear friend of Metallica, a dear friend of San Fransisco The one, the only Michael Tilson Thomas, give it up! (Thank you) The stage is all yours I'm going home Thank you, thank you, thank you, Professor Lars Careful! Before we go any further ladies and gentlemen I want to give a special recognition and big bow For one of the world's greatest orchestras, the San Francisco Symphony Because not only did they have the chops to play this and do this They have the guts and the spirit to do it Which is awesome So, also I wanna thank Lars, James, Kirk, Roberto For having the incredible courage and vision to imagine this event Coming back 20 years later and happening tonight So we want to play one piece for you Where you just get to hear the orchestra all by itself And in many conversations Lars and I have had about classical music We talk about all the different spirits there in it And it goes back 1200 years, so it's accomplished a lot In the history of civilization And this piece that we're playing you know, is one of those moments In which classical music and heavy metal sort of fuse and combine And it's from, this piece called Scythian Suite So what do you need to know about the Scythians? Well, if you were in Central Asia, in 700 BC They were the people to know What do we know about them? They were masters of horses They were tribal They wore elaborate metallic object decorations And they were very heavily into tattoos So we thought you would like this dance Which is the dance of the ecstatic spirits of the night